Attachment for bottles



Oct. 6, 1931. v" c. PORTER 1,326,235

ATTACHMENT F0 BOTTLES Filed Dc' 10, 1927 m. M W

INVENTOR BY W 4 C.

ATTORN EY Patented Oct. 6, 1931' UNtTED STATES PATENT OFFICE VERNON C.PORTER, OF NEW YORK,

TRACY HIGGINS N. Y., ASSIGNGB TO CHARLES M. HIGGINS & 00., 01"

M. HIGGINS AND ATTACHMENT FUR BOTTLES Application filed December 10,1927. Serial No. 289,025.

This invention relates to attachments for bottles, and aims to provide asimple, inexpensive and convenient attachment for an ink bottle.

An attachment embodying the invention engages the bottom and top of anink bottle and embraces its neck. The attachment may be made of a singlepiece of sheet material. It may be used to hold a pen and brush on thebottle, and, if desired, also to secure the bottle to a drawing board.

The invention may best be understood from description of an illustrativeembodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the attachment applied to an ink bottle;

Fig. 2 is a back elevation of the attachment applied to an ink bottle;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the inent applied to an ink bottle;

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the attachment applied to an ink bottle; and

Fig. 5 is a View, on a smaller scale, of the piece of sheet metal fromwhich the attachment is made, indicating the lines on which the sheetmetal is bent.

The attachment consists essentially of a strip of sheet metal bent onthree parallel lines 10, 11, and 12 to provide a bottom plate 13, a sidebar 14; perpendicular to the bottom plate, atop bar 15 inclined inwardlyfrom the side bar, and a neck piece 16 inclined outwardly from the topbar and perpendicular to the bottom plate.

The neck piece 16 has lateral projections 17 which are bent around toprovide a spring clip to embrace the neck of the bottle so as to holdthe attachment securely on the bottle. The top bar 15 terminating innotched tabs 19, which are bent at right angles to the projections 18 toprovide spaced outer bearing elements of a pen holder whose innerbearing element is provided by the neck piece 16. Tabs 20 cut from theside portions of the side bar 1 1 and bent slightly outwardly from theplane of the side bar provide a brush holder.

The bottom plate may be provided with a hole 21 for the passage of theshank of a attachthumb tack, so as to permit fastening the attachmentand the ink bottle which it contains upon a drawing board.

\Vhat I claim is:

An attachment for ink bottles, comprising a strip of sheet metal bent onthree parallel lines to provide a bottom plate, a side bar perpendicularto the bottom plate, a top bar inclined inwardly from the side bar, anda neck piece inclined outwardly from the top bar and perpendicular tothe bottom plate, the

neck piece havlng integral lateral proj ections which are bent around toprovide a spring clip to embrace a cylindrical bottle neck and the topbar being provided with integral lateral projections having at theirends upturned tabs which cooperate with the neck piece to provide threepoints of support for a rod-like object placed horizontally across theattachment.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

VERNON G. PORTER.

has lateral projections 18

